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Blackbird This member of the thrush family is common in gardens. The female and younger birds are brown.
Song Thrush This is one of our best songbirds.
Robin The Robin is also a member of the thrush family. Also a good songbird. Males and females both sing to mark their territories
but it is only the male who sings to defend the nesting territory from other Robins in late winter and spring.
Starling This is a common bird in town and country. It looks black from a distance but close up it has speckles and a sheen of
blue and green. Starlings nest in the eaves of houses as well as holes in trees. It is a good mimic and often adds snatches of other birds notes
into it's own bubbling song.
Blue Tit One of the most common visitors to gardens especially if there is a bird table or hanging nuts.
Great Tit A little bigger than the Blue Tit, the Great Tit can also be recognized by the broad black stripe down it's breast.
Great Tits and Blue Tits will use nest boxes in gardens if they are hung in a suitable place.
Coal Tit Another garden visitor, the Coal Tit is slightly smaller than the Blue and has a white patch on the back of it's head.
Chaffinch This is the most common finch. Finches are seed eaters which is why they have thick, strong beaks.
Greenfinch This bird will come to gardens with nut feeders or a bird table.
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Collared Dove This bird only arrived in Ireland in the 1960's having spread throughout Europe from it's original home
in South East Europe. It likes gardens with large trees.
House Martin The House Martin makes it's nest by sticking mud to the walls of houses. Like the Sand Martin it is in the
Swallow family. As their food is flying insects they fly to Africa for the winter.
Sand Martin Sand martins are slightly smaller than the House Martin and the House Martin is white on the lower back.
Sand Martins nest in colonies in holes in sand or earth banks. There is a colony in summer at a sand bank just past the Derry road roundabout.
Jackdaw This member of the crow family is more of a town bird than other crows. It often nests in unused chimneys
and derelict houses. From a distance it is similar to the Rook but is smaller.
Swift Though not in the swallow family, the Swift is similar in appearance and flight. It is also an insect eater and returns to
Africa in late summer. Amazingly this bird can fly continuously only coming to land only when nesting in tall buildings. It can even sleep
on the wing, rising to high altitude as it gets dark.
House Sparrow A common bird which nests under the eaves of houses. The House Sparrow has become scarce in some large towns
because modern buildings are not so suitable for their nests.
Hedge Sparrow This bird is not in the same family as the House Sparrow. It's alternative name is the Dunnock.
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